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- From: hoosiers@carson.u.washington.edu (Mary Loveless)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Changing Subject Lines (Was Re: Is the discussion over?, Nee
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:57:41 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- References: <1992Dec22.175831.28627@nevada.edu> <sph0301.131.725131826@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.153326.14511@clpd.kodak.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.153326.14511@clpd.kodak.com>
- staffan@ca.serum.kodak.com (Kenneth Staffan (x37507)) writes:
-
- >It's a high-volume newsgroup, and
- >people are just looking for ways to filter out what they do and don't
- >want to follow. Not everybody has hours to weed through tons of messages.
- >Kill files are only of marginal use - subject lines continually change,
- >and the kill parsing itself takes time, which is one of the problems in
- >the first place.
- >
- >Don't pay any attention to these tangential arguments. Does anyone
- >else have constructive suggestions for organizing the group?
- >
- >Ken
- >---
- >staffan@serum.kodak.com
-
- I am against any split. I like the diversity, even though I have
- reluctantly started to use the Kill file, sometimes because I object to
- the subject matter, more often because the topic does not appeal to me,
- but usually simply to weed. I think it is more than of just marginal use,
- in spite of the changing subject line. It takes seconds, not hours, to
- identify an evolved subject line and to add that to the already existing
- lines to be killed. It is also great fun to see the liveliness of a
- "killed" file and to take note of its many incarnations: i.e.,
- *Non-rabelaisian farts we/;Farting (Re: Photo CD)/;Flatulence (WAS Ngaio
- Marsh/;Rabelaisian pieces about/; *Maddoxian flatus; Chaucer\. Was
- non-Rab/; Re JAZ lodges a complaint. Was...... Like swamp gas, it keeps
- bubbling to the surface--good going, folks, and I can't wait to see the
- next eruption....so to speak.
-
- Mary Loveless hoosiers@carson.u.washington.edu
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